Slot loading Xbox 360

File this one under: “Wow, that’s even possible?” xbox-scene hacker [RDC] has been hard at work converting his Xbox 360 to slot loading. To start, He removed the slot loading drive from a blueberry iMac G3. The loading mechanism is the top half of the drive. He split this off and married it to the reading mechanism in the Xbox’s Hitachi drive. The difficult part came with getting the drive to properly signal when it had a disc. He put together a custom circuit to do the detection and has a thorough description of how he solved the problem.

This is pretty cool, if the PS3 and the wii can have one, why not the 360? Also why would you be putting smaller or odd shaped discs into your 360? at most all you’ll put in is dvds, games and cds. and apart from the odd random advertising cds from sucky bands, all those discs are staandard anyways.

I used to have a regular xbox in my car and I wanted to do the same thing. You could have an indash solution if your car if had the space. I ended up putting it under the passenger seat. Great work rdc.